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SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) ANOTHER RELIEF SHIP:

TO LEAVE SINGAPORE NEXT MONTH.

Singapore, May 12

Another ambulance transport, the us. Mabano, has been allotted to the Straits. She will carry 500 passengers and leave in June

ART EXHIBITION TO AID BLINDED SOLDIERS.

Singapore, May 12, An exhibition of remarkable French war pictures by noted artists and also a complete set of Roaemaeker's cartoons, in aid of French blinded soldiers, are creating great interest.

THE JAPANESE BOYCOTT.

Shanghai, May 12. The anti-Japan boycott is increasing and widening, numerous lines of trade being affected.

RICE CONTROL

Singapore, May 9. The rice regulations prohibit any movement for purchase or sale except under license. Licensees are to keep an accurate register in English of all stocks, transport and sales.

Singapore. May 12.

A meeting of planters, merchants and others drged the Govern- ment completely to control all rice and introduce the ration system. The Government replied that it favoured full control and was doubtful if rationing could be supervised but would consider it.

MALAYAN ANZAC ASSOCIATION.

Singapore, May 9.

The Anzac Association of Malaya has been definitely formed with headquarters at Singapore.

ADMIRAL LINE BOATS IN TROUBLE.

Singapore, May 10. The American auxilary schooner Admiral Mayo was towed in the last hundred miles. She was incapacited by engine trouble. The Admiral Sims, also from Hongkong, has been sighted.

'TO-DAY'S CHINESE TELEGRAMS.

Chinese Commercial #exe" Service. THE CHINESE PARLIAMENTARY PROBLEM.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

HOW THE GERMANS WERE STOPPED.

GEN. MAURICE EXPLAINS ALLIES STRATEGY.

MENTAL TESTS.

WOMEN AS GOOD AS MEN.

Major-Gen Sir Frederick Prof. R. S. Woodworth, of the Maurice, director of Military department of paychology, Col- Operations of the British General umbia University, said recently Staff from 1915 to 1918, that in the application of the told the story of Marshal Foch's army mental tests on a group of strategy, which stopped, then students, both male and femala, forced back the Germans, and at Columbia he had discovered finally brought about the arm-that the women matched up istice, before a large audience at about equally with the men. He Carnegie Hall in New York on explained the army tests were March 24. Gen. Maurice praised intended more for male subjects, the American troops, especially but added that when this was the 107th Infantry, the old Seven- allowance made for it, the mental the Twenty-seventh Division and taken into consideration and

th Regiment of New York. He abilities of the men and the was introduced by Major-Gen. | women were found to come out. John F. O'Ryan, commander of pretty much alike. the Twenty-seventh Division. Gen. Maurice said in part:

Tests have shown quite a per- centage of mental defectives in Germans at the furthest place in service. Some very interesting, On July 14, 1918, we find the the cases of girls in domestic their advance against our lines. data were obtained recently by I Three or four great bulges, or tests made on the girl,workers in salients, as soldiers call them, a certain large department store. had been made by various A very high percentage of thesS advances carried out by the girls ranked exceedingly well and Kaiser's troops. The largest of no percentage of feeble-minded- these salients was made on Marchness was found at all. Girl workers 21, 1918, when forty-two German employed by a certain large chain divisions flung themselves against restaurant concern made nearly fourteen-divisions of the British as good a showing as did the Army. That army was for a department store girls, time overwhelmed and driven almost to the gates of Amiens.

This offensive, victorious as it was for the Germans, was not without gain for our side. It led, first of all, to unity of command, and made Marshal Foch

in the second place, it brought the leader of all the Allied forces. forth a strong appeal to America to expedite the dispatch of troops, an appeal that met with a prompt and generous response from your country, so that thereafter 300 000 Americans landed in Europe every month.

"We do know, however, said Prof. Woodworth, "that not so

any girls as boys are diagnosed in the homes or in the schools as clinics. This is believed to show mentally deficient and sent to the

the face of its it looks as though that the male sex tended to vary more between the extremes. On more men than women were very table; and this has its opposite side also, namely, that this would tend to show that more men than women were very low grade. That has been called in question lately also.

This blow was followed by another, which forced the British

"There is another possible ex- almost back to the Channel (planation, namely, that girls are Then the Germans inrced on the more sheltered. docile, and French and rushed through to pleasing, as it were, than boys, Chateau Thierry, only forty miles and they are able therefore to get from Paris Then, after a weaker by with less mentality than boys attack on the French. delivered either in school or in industry. in an effort to widen the salient. It is certain, at any rate, that the Germans rested till the middle there are a large number of of June in order to prepare themi-feeble-minded women at large in selves for a final drive that was the population.

FOUR PROPOSALS NOW PUT FORWARD.

to bring & great victory to "When we came to try the tests Shanghai. May-12.

German arma, and, in their view, on our college students, we find The Peace Conference met together on the morning of the 10th to end the war.

both the male and female coming inst. but had only an informal meeting to discuss matters generally.

On July 15 the lust German out pretty nearly alike. As I However, owing to the present serious state in diplomatic affairs, offensive started on schedule for recall it, the men came out a bath Delegations felt it imperative to hasten the completion of the Rheims. It fell upon Gouraud's trifle better than the women, Peace Conference and therefore the question of Parliament must be array in an effort to get control of but one must bear in mind the discussed within a day or twa According to a reliable source, there rail communications. The French fact that the tests had been are four proposals respecting the solution of this question: First, Seneral withdrew his troops, designed for male subjects a little to dissolve both Parliaments and devise means to elect another leaving the deserted trenches full more particularly. Parliament; second, bath Parliaments to stop their sessions of gas. and 45 the German and let the Constitutional Conference, which was dissolved columns advanced against his on 13th June in the sixth year of the Republic, resume sitting reserve positions, shelled them in Nanking and complete the Constitution-making, which both Parliaments be dissolved and elect a "one according to a new Constitution; third to restore the 13th June sixth-year Parliament in Nanking, make the Constitution and elect a new President; fourth, a similar method to the third proposal, excepting tha: Parliament can exercise the right to reject or approve Chinen Nung-fun tendered his resignation on the 8th instant and thereupon Chu Sai-chong summoned all the Cabine: Ministers to his palace, asking them to remain, adding that if they go all must go.

Both Tuan Ki-sui and Wong Shi-jun decline to form a -Cabinet

No Peace Conference meeting was held yesterday, but Wang Kut-mun and Ng Ting-chong called on Tang Shao-Fi to discuss the

the formation of the Cabinet ·

question of Parliament.

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a detail or * number of details In while got across the River Marne, a group of girls usually will Two other attacks in the mean-such cases. the average of and it fell to the Americans to surpass the average of a group of stop that drive. I need not tell boys. This does not mean that an American audience about the girls surpass the boys, every Wood, but it was an Americaning every other member of the Chateau Thierry ur Belleau

one of them individually surpass- frontal attack on July 17 that opposite sex under examination. drove the Germans back and pre- but it would seem to mean that pered the way for the final attack the middle point for the girls was which stopped the offensive.

Then came the blow on another boys.

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sector, another one of those * CAN WE TALK TO MARS? world. A person on this planet straight-arm punches. This time

Here in Columbia we tried would see the earth and moon as it was delivered by Gen. Per the army tests on a group of 100 a double planet moving about the shing's men against the St. Mihiel men

students and ал equal sun much as Venus and present- sector. This sector was wiped number of women. I found that ing phases like the moon rout by the American troops in they came out just about even, When nearest Mars the forty-eight hours. The Germans and when we made the allowance learth would be a thin hair cres-lost 15,000 prisoners and 150 guns. that some of the test material cent, near the sun, and almost in- This drive brought the Allies favoured the men we decided visible.

was in front of Metz and threatened that the outcome the Briey mineral deposits from evén."

Since the war developed these are trying to signal, us. Certain Martians as the same view of Also, it widened the front on

were used quite observers claim that at times they Mars reveals to us. Our globe as which the Allies could attack into the army through the draft, extensively on the men brought see flashes of light gleam out on we know, has a region of clouds the Germans in that sector and important American industries Mars, disappearing and reappear and rain along the equator, with changed the Lorraine sector have shown much interest in ing not unlike a telegraph code of clear weather in both tropics, Von Ludendorff drew reserves them, from the standpoint that alternate clear and cloudy periods from wherever possible, and even possibly these tests or similar dots and dashes.

in the temperate zones, and snow rushed the Kaiser to the threat- ones could be applied to both men of gados daring the worth of April Whether these reported flashes and storms at the really

signale from From Mars it

poles. ened ground in a special train and women workers, to the end would appear to try to bolster ap the Teutons that more efficiency could be intelligent creatures on another roughly belted.

like Jupiter, defence. planet has not as yet been decid- with

achieved and the individual white Сарв at the ed. When we remember that poles and red tints along the getting ready for his lig kick and advantage is industry through In the meantime Foch was worker could be placed to better Mars at its nearest is almost half sunset and sunrise edges. The on September 26 there opened the having the kind of work de as far away as the sun, and even predominating colours would be first of his great battles that designated for him which he was with the best of instruments and blue and white, with occasion- cided the war. under the clearest skies the least al touches of green and brown. Gen. Liggett's Americans, the

It was begun by best qualified to handle. object which can be seen with

Officials who have assisted in any certainty on its surface is The telescopes such as same troops that wiped out the evolving these tests for the army sixty miles wide, it is easy possess if set up on Mars, could St. Mihiel salient who had been have been questioned concerning to realise that any observa- locate cities like London, New secretly transferred north of Ver- the possible application tions .of: bona-fide signals York, and Chicago by their lights dun on the Argenne front. Gen. such examinations for different call for the keenes: perceptions at night, although these places to the north of Liggett.

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On September 27 Haig assault-it is said, but while none of The logical ability to distinguish between way

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has, attempt- signal the the real and the apparent. would be to alternately darken Cambrai, and on September 28 ed to reduce the proposition Superficially, as Prof. Clifford and light the lights of the great the Belgians, French, and British of what might be saved by Raymond points

out, Mars, cities which the Martiane could attacked under King "Albert's large industrial plants if means and the earth have much in probably see, returning the exact British to the north of St. Quentin placing the individual worker in command. On September 29 the were at hand scientifically for common. Both have air, water, signals which we see fresh from and the French directly in front the job to which he or she was fand, clouds, snow and veget. Mars. Then, if the reported lights ation. Ordinarily the weather really are intelligent signals, we of the town attacked the heart of beat fitted, it is nevertheless on Mars is clear and cool and should expect in the course of the Hindenburg line. With the pointed out that by installing frosts at night, are common even time to get a response.This Second Corps composed of the eliminate those, mentally unfit British on that day went Reed's some such process which would in mid summer Judged by the done, the deciphering of the mess. Twenty-seventh and Thirtieth for given work, both money and

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